5 Feb
2009
5 Feb
'09
3:56 p.m.
I wonder what happed to apple's cray?
Traded in for a smaller model in the early 90's. It had little practical
use after the Aquarius project was killed. Last use for the Cray-ette was
as a backup system with the large tape robot that was attached.
In its prime, they had people begging to buy time on the thing, which sat
idle most of the time.
5 Feb
5 Feb
4:44 p.m.
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I wonder what
happed to apple's cray?
Traded in for a smaller model in the early 90's. It had little practical
use after the Aquarius project was killed. 
6:11 p.m.
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Aquarius
project?
Every computer company had an Aquarius project at some point.
That damn song... 
11 Feb
11 Feb
11:10 a.m.
New subject: Simulation vs breadboarding (was Replacing failedpowersupplieson qbus PDP-11s)
cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org wrote:
Perhaps. In the case of DEC, it was because it was their
first watercooled machine. It had a somewhat reduced
performance counterpart codenamed "Aridus" (as in "dry").
That one shipped as the VAX 8800 series; Aquarius was canceled.
The VAX 88x0 was Polarstar (or at least the > 2 CPUs variant was).
The VAX 8700/8800 was Nautilus (conceptually the same as polarstar but
many backplane bits and the console [I think] changed along the way).
The VAX 8500 was Flounder (?) and apparently became Skipjack once they
took the NOPs out of the microcode ...
The VAX 9000 was Aquarius (and ended up as Aridus, I don't know what
changed
other than not piping water through it). Millstone would have been
better methinks.
IIRC it was a $4B project that sold of the order of 500 machines @ ~ $1M
each.
Antonio
Aquarius project?
Every computer company had an Aquarius project at some point.
That damn song...
11:34 a.m.
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>>>> "arcarlini" == arcarlini
<arcarlini at iee.org> writes:
arcarlini> cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org wrote:
>>> Aquarius project?
>> Every computer company had an Aquarius project at some point.
>>
>> That damn song...
> Perhaps. In the case of DEC, it was because it was their first
> watercooled machine. It had a somewhat reduced performance
> counterpart codenamed "Aridus" (as in "dry"). That one shipped
as
> the VAX 8800 series; Aquarius was canceled.
arcarlini> The VAX 88x0 was Polarstar ...
arcarlini> The VAX 9000 was Aquarius (and ended up as Aridus, I don't
arcarlini> know what changed other than not piping water through
arcarlini> it). ...
Oops, you're right of course, I mixed up the model numbers.
paul
5 Feb
5 Feb
8:33 p.m.
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On Thursday 05 February 2009 07:55:40 pm William Donzelli wrote:
Heh.
Somewhere in my files I have a schematic for a computer, "Aquarius AS-20"
(I'm not 100% certain about the model number) which was an Apple II clone.
If I'm remembering right it had a z80 on the board, along with 64k, and
some other stuff that cost extra with the original setup.
For a while there I was seeing a whole *bunch* of that sort of thing, coming
out of "Little Taiwan" in Philly, until the guy who was importing that stuff
got slapped down, probably around the same time Franklin did. I'm thinking
this was maybe back around '84, maybe early '85. The name "Beltron"
comes
to mind, too, and I can remember machines that were almost an exact copy
except that when you powered them up "Beltron II" showed up on the screen.
Later on I think that same company sold peecee clone hardware.
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Aquarius
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That damn song...
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